Imagination Technologies, based out of the United Kingdom, is a semiconductor designer that, earlier this year, was handing down job cuts.

Imagination is a fabless UK-based R&D company focused on semiconductor and related intellectual property licensing. Its high-performance GPU designs are licensed by companies like Apple for integration into their own semiconductor products.

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors:

Imagination Technologies engineers Dave Roberts, Jonathan Redshaw, and Benjamin Bowman are also now employed by Apple. Likewise, a fourth engineer Simon Nield joined
Apple as a Design Manager just this month. A search of former
Imagination Technologies employees now working at Apple yields 25
results.

Many of Imagination’s employees continue to be based in London, but
some have apparently relocated to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino,
California.

Fuzilla alleged in 2015
that Apple embarked on building its own mobile GPU in order to cut the
cord from Imagination. Sources in the graphics industry told Fuzilla
that Apple’s been secretly developing a custom GPU in-house for a few
years now.

The report also states that, based on information put forth by an
anonymous tipster, that Apple is keeping a team in London, England, to
build GPUs. However, take that information with a grain of salt, for the
obvious reasons.

Imagination Technologies, based out of the United Kingdom, is a semiconductor designer that, earlier this year, was handing down job cuts.

Imagination is a fabless UK-based R&D company focused on semiconductor and related intellectual property licensing. Its high-performance GPU designs are licensed by companies like Apple for integration into their own semiconductor products.

Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors:

Imagination Technologies engineers Dave Roberts, Jonathan Redshaw, and Benjamin Bowman are also now employed by Apple. Likewise, a fourth engineer Simon Nield joined
Apple as a Design Manager just this month. A search of former
Imagination Technologies employees now working at Apple yields 25
results.

Many of Imagination’s employees continue to be based in London, but
some have apparently relocated to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino,
California.

Fuzilla alleged in 2015
that Apple embarked on building its own mobile GPU in order to cut the
cord from Imagination. Sources in the graphics industry told Fuzilla
that Apple’s been secretly developing a custom GPU in-house for a few
years now.

The report also states that, based on information put forth by an
anonymous tipster, that Apple is keeping a team in London, England, to
build GPUs. However, take that information with a grain of salt, for the
obvious reasons.